A lot of people have been holding out to play with D until
Christmas FYI.

It can also simple be that most people who used D before, had
time to upgrade to the newer version.
Its better to correlate the download rate with the rate of
posting in the Learn section, to see how many are really new
users. Ali's book downloads seems to have no noticeable
difference in this periode, something you normally expect with
new people trying out the language ( Especially as the
pdf/website book version is free ).
Another issue is that from those graph's the influence of the
2.072 release very fast dropped down again to pre-2.072. So one
can conclude there has been no followup.

A lot of people have been holding out to play with D until Christmas FYI.

It can also simple be that most people who used D before, had time to
upgrade to the newer version.
Its better to correlate the download rate with the rate of posting in
the Learn section, to see how many are really new users. Ali's book
downloads seems to have no noticeable difference in this periode,
something you normally expect with new people trying out the language (
Especially as the pdf/website book version is free ).
Another issue is that from those graph's the influence of the 2.072
release very fast dropped down again to pre-2.072. So one can conclude
there has been no followup.

Btw, I based this mostly off the number of newbies coming on to IRC.
There has been quite a large number :) At least compared to the rest of
the yar.

Btw, I based this mostly off the number of newbies coming on to
IRC. There has been quite a large number :) At least compared
to the rest of the yar.

Interesting. Maybe it can be useful to get a poll asking the new
people how they got introduced to D. Especially if this
correlates top the release. If the release news draws in people,
maybe it can be interesting to do more increment releases ;)
Btw. IRC ... that is so 1999 :)

Btw, I based this mostly off the number of newbies coming on
to IRC. There has been quite a large number :) At least
compared to the rest of the yar.

Interesting. Maybe it can be useful to get a poll asking the
new people how they got introduced to D. Especially if this
correlates top the release. If the release news draws in
people, maybe it can be interesting to do more increment
releases ;)
Btw. IRC ... that is so 1999 :)